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Thomas Oliver Morgan (born 20 January 1941) is a retired
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of the Anglican Church of Canada. Morgan was educated at the
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and trained for the priesthood at King's College London and Tyndale Hall, Bristol. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at the Church of the Saviour,
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, after which he was the
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of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. After being
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of Kinistino he became Archdeacon of Indian Missions in the
Diocese of Saskatchewan The Diocese of Saskatchewan is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada formed in 1874. Its headquarters are in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The Diocese of Saskatoon was split off from it in 193 ...
and then the diocesan
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in 1985.Diocesan website
He was
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to be the Bishop of Saskatoon in 1993 and then became the Archbishop of Saskatoon and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land in 2000, resigning both positions in 2003.


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1941 births University of Saskatchewan alumni Alumni of the Theological Department of King's College London Anglican bishops of Saskatchewan Anglican bishops of Saskatoon 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Metropolitans of Rupert's Land 21st-century Anglican archbishops Living people {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub